https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63440
Antoine "hashar" Musso <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |WONTFIX --- Comment #3 from Antoine "hashar" Musso <[email protected]> --- We already had similar requests previously and I am the one that rejected them: Bug 27839 - Offer 460px and 620px as thumbnail size preferences Bug 41712 - hewiki asks to change default image sizes for thumb and gallery Bug 47332 - en.Wikivoyage: increase default image thumb size The reason for rejecting such requests is on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41712#c14 and I am copy pasting it there: ------------------------------------------ Here is a summary I have posted on Gerrit change #31580 which is based off a discussion we had in a restricted mailing list: It is not reasonable for us to handle different thumbnail sizes per wiki for the following reasons: - we keep thumbnails forever currently, the more we have the more disk space it takes - different sizes lower the cache hit rate which in turns cause... - ... a CPU cost on the cluster to generate a thumbnail, varying the sizes cause more and more thumbnails generations - whenever a file is updated, we have to purge each thumbnails ever generated The consensus among the engineering team is to standardize the thumbnails to a few well known formats and have the scaling being done by the web browser. We could let the mobile clients scale up small thumbnails (to save bandwidth) and desktop scale down larger thumbnails (to get nicer pictures). So I am sorry to say it, but that changes will not land on the live cluster. ------------------------------------------ There is a few more details on the RFC https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Standardized_thumbnails_sizes though we haven't pushed to find a solution. I wrote the document as a reference to discard requests to raise the thumbnail limit. Sorry. Feel free to bring the subject again on wikitech-l. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
